Flexible packaging

Trends in pharma validation

What do pharmaceutical companies need from technology providers and packaging machinery OEMs to make FDA validation run more smoothly?

June 30, 2005

Materials: Page 580

Blisters/clamshells/thermoforming materials

New pack foils thieves

With a single machine purchase, cartridge remanufacturer IJR, Inc., automated its packaging and reduced theft losses that had plagued its retailer customers.

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

New drug bottle 'Targets' safety concerns

A prescription bottle designed for Target Corp. pharmacies gives new meaning to the phrase “extreme makeover.”

June 30, 2005

Converting equipment

Vibration effects on torque

This original research from an SJSU graduate student looks at the effect of vibration on the removal torque of PP and HDPE closures.

June 30, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Smart Packaging: Printed RFID tags in test

Direct-print RFID technology in pilot in Europe uses no silicon or transistor.

June 30, 2005

Flexibles

Convenience and portability power packages

Esther Palevsky, an analyst for the Freedonia Group, says packaging that makes foods convenient, portable, and easier or faster to prepare exemplify key packaging trends.

June 30, 2005

Labels

IFCO's asset tracking produces results

A digital-based color wheel track-and-trace technology for IFCO’s RPCs brings ‘tremendous’ benefits.

June 30, 2005

Case/tray packing

Clabber Girl Corp.: Pail filling/capping powdered mixes

On the U-shape production line, the pails are filled and sealed at a rate of about 42 pails/min on equipment from Burghof, sourced by Belcorp. The Burghof machine is topped with an AMS auger filler that dispenses the powdered ingredients with 1% accuracy at a rate of around 42 pails/min

May 31, 2005

Conveying & accumulation

Clabber Girl Corp.: Wraparound case packing of pails

At the case packer, supplied by TAD Packaging Machinery, Pails of powdered mixes are collated into groups of six that are cross-pushed onto the 29# ECT corrugated blank. After the cases are glue sealed, they are discharged to the takeaway conveyor.

May 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Automation to fuel demand for packaging machinery

With Freedonia predicting a 4% annual increase in world demand for packaging machinery through 2008 and the Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute predicting 7% growth in U.S. packaging machinery sales this year, it’s useful to ask just what kind of packaging machinery will sell most briskly and what market segment will do the most buying.

May 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Enterprise transaction module

Online Development’s xCoupler™ enterprise transaction module for Allen-Bradley® ControlLogix® controllers provides two-tier data exchange between plant floor devices (sensors, actuators, drives, bar-code scanners, robots, RFID controllers) connected to the controller and enterprise servers.

May 31, 2005

Flexibles

Pactiv to sell protective and flexible packaging businesses

Pactiv Corp. has agreed to sell substantially all of its North American and European protective and flexible packaging businesses to an affiliate of AEA Investors LLC, an international private equity firm, for approximately $530 million and the assumption of certain liabilities.

May 31, 2005

Coding, Printing & Labeling

Tag-and-ship RFID

InfinID Technologies has introduced EZ-EPC, an intelligent EPC-compliant Tag and Ship RFID labeling and verification solution.

May 31, 2005